At 11 o'clock in the evening on August 1, 90 Kuwait time, it was already very late at this time, but at this moment the presidential palace in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, was still brightly lit, and countless communication signals came and went in the confidential room, and in the study, a bearded old man was standing in front of the window, looking southwest, because it was the direction of Kuwait.

This old man is Iraq's President Saddam Hussein, from 79 to the present, he is like an emperor, he has been ruling this ancient land for 11 years, even in distant China, he is also very famous.

Suddenly, the telephone on his desk rang, and Saddam Hussein immediately withdrew his gaze from the window, and then quickly ran to the desk to pick up the phone, but he did not speak, but heard the command from there and asked: "Can I really do this?"

"Do you think you still have a choice? Of course, if you want to give up, we don't care, it's just that your country needs a war, and on the other hand, can you bear such a provocation from a small country?" he said, his tone mocking.

Saddam hesitated for a while and then hung up the phone, his eyes suddenly became sharp, he pressed the phone on the table to call his secretary, Saddam handed him an order on the table that he had already signed, and said to him: "Immediately hand it over to the operational command, and it must be kept strictly confidential." ”

His secretary replied yes, then turned and left the room, Saddam Hussein turned and came to the window again, he looked at the night sky in the southwest and said: "The stars are bright tonight, but in two hours, I believe he will be brighter, just like my country, and anyone who dares to provoke me, I will tear him to pieces, just like the mutton I enjoyed at night." ”

Safwan is a small town in Iraq near the border with Kuwait, where Saddam Hussein has deployed 100,000 troops and tanks and planes since tensions between the two countries began.

Two hours after Saddam Hussein hung up the phone, Safwan immediately became active, all the soldiers urgently assembled at night, the tanks and planes also lifted their camouflage, and as a miserable white signal bomb exploded in the night sky, all the troops quietly lined up in an attack formation and drove towards the Kuwaiti border, and half an hour later, when the first artillery shell exploded at the Kuwaiti border outpost, Kuwait sounded the war alarm.

The terrible sirens sounded throughout Kuwait and also followed the reporter's lens to the United States, which is far away on the other side of the world.

Zhou Minglin, Muqing, Tong Gang, Li Cheng, and Ilbedov from North Russia, they were still sitting in the conference room of the Wharton Company, it was already six o'clock in the afternoon in Brighton at this time, and from seven o'clock in the morning to now, they had been sitting here for a full eleven hours, but compared with the tension in the morning, their expressions were much more relaxed now, because a news was being inserted on the TV in front of them, it was Iraq's sudden attack on Kuwait.

In the picture of the television set, the cities of Kuwait are constantly lit up with fires, and bursts of gunfire are heard from not far away.

Along with the gunshots, there was also a war correspondent's announcement: "Ladies and gentlemen, we can see that the Iraqi army has crossed the Kuwaiti border and launched an attack on Kuwait, and we cannot judge whether Iraq's undeclared war is a warning or a long-planned aggression, but we can see that the fighting on the front line is now very fierce, and even the king's brother has gone to the front line to direct the battle." ”

At this time, someone handed the reporter a piece of paper, and the reporter quickly read the contents of it, and then said: "According to the information we have just received, the King of Kuwait has just issued a letter to the Kuwaiti people, in which he calls on all Kuwaiti people to unite and jointly resist the aggression from Iraq, and he says that the Kuwaiti royal family will fight all the invaders to the end!"

"This long-prepared drama has finally begun, and it seems that both the capital involved in this war and Saddam Hussein himself can't wait. Ilbedov said, and his relief could be clearly heard.

In fact, not only him, but everyone in the conference room, including Zhou Ming, breathed a sigh of relief, because they all knew very well that with the outbreak of this war, the situation in the Middle East would become worse, especially Iraq and Kuwait are both very important oil producers, and their oil production accounts for nearly one-fifth of the world's oil. This will undoubtedly add to the market's fears, and as a result, the price of crude oil will soar.

"Well, I believe that this news will make the whole world sleep, whether it is politicians who care about the international situation, or the capital that operates oil, but we can sleep well. ”

Zhou Ming said and stood up, and he said to everyone: "Okay, Chairman Tong, as well as Brother Li and Mr. Ilbedov, everyone go back and rest, today's battle situation is here, everyone go back to wash and sleep, we have been sitting here all day today, I believe everyone is very tired, if you want to hear the news of Iraq's annexation of Kuwait, you have to wait until tomorrow morning." ”

Tong Gang noticed the key point in Zhou Ming's words and asked him: "Little brother Zhou Ming, you said that Iraq will be able to occupy the entire territory of Kuwait tomorrow morning?"

"Is there anything wrong with this? Could it be that you think Kuwait can really fight to the end?" Zhou Ming asked rhetorically, "To be honest, even if the Kuwaiti royal family has the will to resist, it will not be able to withstand the Iraqi army, and in a maximum of fourteen hours, the state of Kuwait will cease to exist." And the price of oil will also rise with the collapse of Kuwait, like chicken blood, let's all wait to collect the money. ”

After Zhou Ming finished speaking, he walked out, Lin Muqing got up without hesitation to follow, Ilbedov thought for a while and followed him and asked him: "Mr. Zhou Ming, if I have friends who also want to enter the market to buy oil futures now, I don't know if it's too late?"

Zhou Ming stopped, but he didn't answer immediately, but looked at him with a smile and asked, "Do you remember when I placed the order?"

Zhou Ming's rhetorical question reminded Ilbedov of the afternoon, which was at three o'clock in the afternoon.

The auction time for oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange was at half past four in the afternoon, but at half past two, when the price of light crude oil and heavy crude oil fell to $15.89 and $14.22 per barrel, respectively, Zhou Ming issued an order to Sun Wei to clear his position and then place all orders. At that time, the entire crude oil trading market was still in a continuous decline.

Zhou Ming's contrarian behavior made them not understand at the time, although they also understood that with the breakdown of negotiations between Iraq and Kuwait, driven by capital, war would soon break out, but in the face of low-hanging fruit benefits, they were still unwilling to give up, after all, it was not impossible to wait until four o'clock when the auction was about to end before starting to clear the warehouse and place new orders.

However, the subsequent development surprised them, and they didn't know whether their previous actions were remembered by someone with a heart or whether they guessed the arrangement of the Brighton consortium.

In short, when Zhou Ming began to clear his position, there were other companies that immediately began to clear his position, when countless sell contracts were thrown out, which immediately caused chaos in the market, although anyone with a discerning eye can see that with the deterioration of the situation in the Middle East, oil prices will definitely rise in the future, but now oil prices are still falling?

With this in mind, the oil futures market became more and more chaotic, and the price of light and heavy crude oil hovered around $15.9 and $14.3, respectively, until the last minute of the time.

Since people all think the same way, as a result, from 4 o'clock, not only can not be placed in the order, but even the clearance order cannot be completed.

At this time, Tong Gang, Li Cheng and Ilbedov felt that Zhou Ming was really prescient, and took the initiative to give up the last hour's gains, but in exchange for a quick clearance and transaction.

So since it is difficult to make an order even at four o'clock in the afternoon, it is obviously impossible to make an order now that the auction on the floor is over, and only by telephone and Internet transactions outside the market, under the premise that the war has started.

Such an idea made Ilbedov feel a little discouraged, and he had already let the old guys on the North Russian side place the order earlier, but it turned out to be so troublesome now. But then again, after all, not everyone trusts Zhou Ming as much as they do, and even if they ask them to place an order at that time, I'm afraid they won't listen to me.

But that's what you say, but who will listen to this explanation?

Ilbedov had already imagined the anger he would face when he returned to North Russia.

"Does Mr. Ilbedov have other friends who are also paying attention to the situation in the Gulf and are ready to take action at any time?" Zhou Ming asked suddenly.

Ilbedov was taken aback by Zhou Ming's words, but he still nodded embarrassedly, and Zhou Ming then said to him: "Actually, you don't have anything to be embarrassed about, everyone can earn money together, but the current situation is really not easy to do." ”

Zhou Ming thought for a while and then said: "You can only try your luck in all the futures markets in the world that are still within the trading time limit, maybe you can still make a little bit of a single if you are lucky, but you must act quickly, because this will be a feast of capital in the world." ”

Zhou Ming's words rekindled Ilbedov's confidence, and he immediately nodded to Zhou Ming in thanks, and then took out his mobile phone and started making calls.

Looking at Ilbedov's impatient look, Zhou Ming could only smile helplessly.

Then Zhou Ming and Lin Muqing returned to the hotel room, recalling the situation during the day, Zhou Ming said to Lin Muqing: "With today's episode, you, the chairman of the Hong Kong City Joint Investment Fund, have completely rebelled. ”

Regarding Zhou Ming's statement, Lin Muqing gave him a blank look and said angrily: "How do you speak? Do you want me to be their person?"

Choked by Lin Muqing, Zhou Ming touched his nose awkwardly and said, "Of course I didn't mean that, I just wanted to say that they are afraid that they will not fully trust you as the chairman in the future, at least in the matter of having me." ”

"It doesn't matter, anyway, I don't have that much interest in the position of chairman of this Hong Kong City United Investment Fund, they don't trust me to dismiss me, I can't ask for it, but I think they shouldn't be so stingy. Lin Muqing said.

If Tong Gang and Li Cheng heard this, they must be very helpless, to know that this position is a wish that many financial practitioners can't dream of, but now Lin Muqing still doesn't care so much, it's really a tyrannical thing, but Lin Muqing is very normal, after all, she is a woman, and only by following her most beloved man is her greatest wish.

Zhou Ming naturally understood this, he stroked Lin Muqing's hair and said, "It's true that I said something wrong, it seems that I have to compensate you well." ”

Before Lin Muqing could raise his head and ask how to compensate, Zhou Ming suddenly picked up Lin Muqing, and then walked towards the room amid Lin Muqing's exclamations, and finally threw her on the bed.